AWS services that support EA activities

Organizations are often packed with talent, software, hardware, and so on, but knowing which ones to utilize for a particular project or task is necessary. Out of an extensive AWS catalog, companies find the most effective ones to support activities in the corporate architectures, such as AWS Organizations, Identity and Access Management (IAM), CloudTrail, Service Catalog, CloudWatch, and so on.

There are certain stakeholders of AWS services that support EA activities defining who, why, what, where, and how aspects of the infrastructure, as illustrated in the following diagram:

Figure 3.2 – Different aspects of an infrastructure that supports EA activities

Within infrastructure, the business architecture domain defines actors, software, and other tools, compliance with governance bodies, change management, and an EA repository.

Roles and actors

Actors include an organization, a person, or the system executing...